self-convinced?

great letter, alexander.

i for one do not welcome our new global overlords.

 ironically, if the 60's social revolution had not been corrupted and mostly decimated, leaving us with 50's types like rummy calling the shots, i well might have.

a benign lone superpower might morph into a wise new world order, but i'm hoping the present ship-of-fools captains are a giant toxic crap about to be ejected from the colon of the body politic, leaving a mae west cleanliness....pun intended.

the swiftest, surest way to defang the mullah-whipped tsunami of religious frenzy against the west would be an attack of generosity that would show the arab peoples that our intentions really are noble.

if every time we'd dropped a cluster bomb, or irradiated unborn children into deformation with depleted uranium, instead we had offered solar panels and 12 volt well tech, hospitals, schools and infrastructure improvement, we would not have to be crowing about democracy to them as they rue the loss of basic services they enjoyed under their 2 bit tinpot throwback saddam.

they would be in a big hurry to exchange their oil so we could plane down gently into sustainability, for the tools to ensure quality of life after their own oil runs out.

and likewise they would reject shari'a law as the medieval atrocity it is, and try something better.

best of all would be if we really embodied successful democracies ourselves, instead of the present rule of corporations, whose shareholders cannot see the real world effects of their worship of bloodless numbers, and the hell it is marching the world towards.

now i'm going to bake some bread and play the baby grand, which got delivered yesterday (almost taking down the pergola on its way in!)

have a loving sunday y'all!

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty